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Samuel Aroney

I am an author of 3 high-impact journal articles in biochemistry and molecular biology. I have also constructed a 4000 line analytical dashboard with underlying database during an internship with Zooniverse while completing a DPhil on bacterial chemotaxis at the University of Oxford funded by a Clarendon Award.

I am currently searching for a Postdoctoral Researcher position in microbiology, molecular biology and genomics. I am also interested in data analysis and statistical programming.

Education

DPhil Candidate, Microbiology

University of Oxford

Oxford, United Kingdom

current - 2016

  • Role and regulation of chemotaxis and motility in Rhizobium leguminosarum
  • Interdisciplinary Bioscience Doctoral Training Partnership (BBSRC)

B.S., Honours

Australian Centre for Ecogenomics

University of Queensland

2016 - 2015

  • Investigating bacterial chemotaxis towards marine pollutants
  • 1st Class

B.S., Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

University of Queensland

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

2015 - 2012

Publications, Posters, and Talks

Strategically navigating through the soil: the integrated sensory systems of the legume symbiont Rhizobium leguminosarum

Sensory Transduction in Microorganisms

Ventura, CA

2020 - 2020

  • Presentation and Poster for GRC/GRS conference on sensory systems of microorganisms.

Lifestyle adaptations of Rhizobium from rhizosphere to symbiosis

Under-Review (copy available upon request.)

N/A

2020 - 2020

  • Authored with Rachel M. Wheatley, Brandon L. Ford, Li Li, Hayley E. Knights, Raphael Ledermann, Alison K. East, Vinoy K. Ramachandran and Philip S. Poole.

A Rapid Extraction Method for Glycogen from Formalin-fixed Liver

Carbohydrate Polymers

N/A

2015 - 2015

  • Authored with Mitchell A. Sullivan, Shihan Li, Bin Deng, Cheng Li, Eugeni Roura, Benjamin L Schulz, Brooke E Harcourt, Josephine M Forbes and Robert G Gilbert.

Changes in Glycogen Structure over Feeding Cycle Sheds New Light on Blood-Glucose Control

Biomacromolecules

N/A

2014 - 2014

  • Authored with Mitchell A. Sullivan, Shihan Li, Frederick J. Warren, Jin Suk Joo, Ka Sin Mak, David I. Stapleton, Kim S. Bell-Anderson, and Robert G. Gilbert.

Research Experience

Rhizobial Motility Researcher

Philip Poole Laboratory

Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford

current - 2017

  • Determining the role of flagellar-based motility and chemotaxis in the symbiosis of Rhizobium leguminosarum with Pisum sativum (pea).
  • Characterising the influence of the metabolic potential of the environment, especially through the phosphor-transferase system, on its swimming ability.

Graduate Safety Representative

Department of Plant Sciences

University of Oxford

2020 - 2019

  • Departmental Graduate safety representative for Safety committee meetings and graduate student contact.
  • This involved managing the Department’s response to the COVID-19 crisis and determining the safest way to return to work.

Software Development Intern

The Zooniverse

University of Oxford

2019 - 2019

  • Software development for The Zooniverse, a community science website.
  • Primarily involved in developing a GraphQL based statistical database of users and visitors to the website in Ruby, Bash and Python.

Synthetic Biology Researcher

Philip Poole Laboratory

Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford

2017 - 2017

  • Characterising nitrogen-fixation ability of Pseudomonas stutzeri and genetically modified Pseudomonas fluorescens Pf-5 and SBW25.

Plant Biochemistry Researcher

Andrew Smith Laboratory

Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford

2017 - 2017

  • Sequencing Portulaca oleracea with Oxford Nanopore MinION technology. This plant performs both CAM and C4 photosynthesis.
  • Extracted and analysed the activity of various phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylases from C3 and CAM photosynthetic plants.

Metagenomics Researcher

Australian Centre for Ecogenomics

University of Queensland

2016 - 2015

  • Using the newly developed in-situ chemotaxis assay (ISCA) device to capture bacteria that display chemotaxis towards environmentally relevant compounds, including poly(ethylene terephthalate) degradation products and pesticides (diuron and atrazine).
  • Then analysing the captured microbes using culture-independent methods (e.g. 16S rRNA gene amplicon and metagenomics) to provide the microbial population attracted by each individual chemoattractant and their metabolic potential.

Graduate Research Assistant

Australian Centre for Ecogenomics

University of Queensland

2016 - 2016

  • Comparing 1<U+00B5>L sea water samples before and after homogenisation to provide metagenomic data of the microheterogeneity of microbial life at such volumes.

Undergraduate Researcher

Centre for Advanced Imaging

University of Queensland

2015 - 2015

  • Writing code in R to estimate individual false-discovery rates across NMR metabolomics data split into columns along the ppm.
  • This allows the amelioration of the multiple testings problem, without relying on a uniform FDR assumption.

Research Assistant

Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation

University of Queensland

2014 - 2014

  • Comparing the glycogen extracted through the traditional sucrose-gradient method to that extracted from formalin fixed samples.

Undergraduate Researcher

Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation

University of Queensland

2013 - 2013

  • Testing the amount and structure of glycogen in mouse livers at different times after eating through an assay, size-exclusion chromatography and transmission electron microscopy of extracted glycogen.

Teaching Experience

I greatly enjoy the experience of discovering where a student is and finding a way to guide them to their own epiphany about a topic.

In vitro enzyme kinetics

Department of Plant Sciences

University of Oxford

2020 - 2019

  • Demonstrating for In vitro enzyme kinetics practical focussing on the kinetics of alcohol dehydrogenase.

Programming for Life Scientists

Doctoral Training Centre

University of Oxford

2019 - 2017

  • Demonstrating for the programming module using the languages Python and C.

Plants and People

Department of Plant Sciences

University of Oxford

2019 - 2019

  • Tutorials about the role of motility and chemotaxis in the soil and in the rhizobium-legume symbiosis.

Analysis of Scientific Data

Faculty of Science

University of Queensland

2016 - 2015

  • Demonstrating for Analysis of Scientific Data (STAT1201), focussing on experimental design, data modelling and statistics.

Inorganic, physical and organic chemistry

School of Chemistry and Molecular Biology

University of Queensland

2015 - 2014

  • 1st Year inorganic, physical and organic chemistry (CHEM1090/CHEM1100) peer-assisted study sessions.

Chemistry and Statistics tutoring

Faculty of Science

University of Queensland

2015 - 2014

  • Drop-in tutoring at the Science Learning Centre for 1st Year Chemistry and Statistics.

Awards

Brasenose Oxford-Australia Clarendon Scholarship

University of Oxford

Oxford, United Kingdom

2020 - 2016

Brasenose Studentship Fund

University of Oxford

Oxford, United Kingdom

2020 - 2020

Vice-Chancellor’s Education Award

University of Oxford

Oxford, United Kingdom

2020 - 2020

  • Programming for Life Scientists received the award particularly with its focus on giving a highly diverse cohort with mixed experience and backgrounds a solid foundation to begin doctoral research science.

UQ Honours Scholarship

University of Queensland

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

2016 - 2015

UQ Excellence Scholarship

University of Queensland

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

2015 - 2012

UQ Summer Research Scholarship

University of Queensland

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

2014 - 2013

UQ Summer Research Scholarship

University of Queensland

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

2013 - 2012



Public Engagement

I have found the engaging the public with my science has been both rewarding and important for improving public perceptions of science.

Perspectives

Oxford University Press

Oxford, United Kingdom

2020 - 2020

  • Interviewed about the underwater agricultural research centre, Nemo’s Garden, for a series of videos on Perspectives.

Super Science Saturday: People and Planet

Museum of Natural History

Oxford, United Kingdom

2018 - 2018

  • Organizing and running ‘Root-nodules’ stall for families.

Inside Cells Day

Museum of Natural History

Oxford, United Kingdom

2017 - 2017

  • Presentation about ‘Fertilizers and the Environment’ to A-level High School Students.